Can't connect to the internet with notebook

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DudeTies

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Hi,

I have a notebook (First Windows Vista, but deleted it and installed Windows XP) and I can't connect to the internet anymore with an Ethernet-cable.
If I look in the hardware list, I see the Wireless Adapter (802.11g MiniPCI Wireless Adapter) and an 1394 network card.
The Wireless internet runs without any problems, but the 1394 card sais it is connected, even if I remove the ethernet cable.
Somebody knows an solution? I really need to connect the Notebook to the internet, and I don't have wireless at home (and I'm not going to buy it soon).

Thanks!
 
The 1394 connection is not your ethernet port. You should see some unknown devices or items in your device manager that have yellow exclamation points, you need to install all the drivers required after installing XP, which included the network driver. Do you see any items in device manager which show those exclamation points?
 
TekkyNASekky said:
When you plug in your cable, does your Windows OS state that it recognizes a new hardware device, after you boot up?
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Nope. If that would happen, I could install the driver pretty easy just by clicking on the update driver butten.

@johnb35
I have some drivers that were delivered with my notebook, but some of them aren't windows XP compatible. But that are only drivers for my nVidia card, my wireless adapter (802.11g MiniPCI Wireless Adapter) and my microcard reader.
I have some yellow exclamation points:
-Modem Device on High Definition Audio bus
-Coprocessor
-Other PCI-Bridge device
-SM-Buscontroller

I read something on a site about nForce driver, so I'm trying that out right now.
 
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